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Personal responsibility: What’s the point?
Taking the long way
Looking four-ward
Not to name names
Making the switch
Under the influence
Letting it slide – just a little
The Patriarch: preservation or progress?
In defense of Arts and Letters
I (don’t) do politics
Reclaiming religiosity
Bring back summer breaks
The trendy generation
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate: Not so obvious
The time has finally come. For some, the day we’ve been waiting for: the chance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. For others, the day they’ve feared: the University’s vaccination requirement for fall enrollment. This is not to say that campus is evenly divided between these two groups, but simply, that emotions of excitement and concern are both substantially present. At this point, you might have strong feelings either way, whether the University should require vaccination of students: *eye roll* “Duhh!” or *angry face* “Absolutely not!” Before you tune out the rest of what I have to say, however, because the answer seems obvious to you, consider the following: While it may be the obvious choice to get the vaccine as soon as possible for someone living in a multigenerational household in a city that has been a COVID-19 hotspot, it’s not so obvious for someone who lives with young, healthy parents or guardians in a remote area that has not been hard-hit by the virus. While the vaccination requirement might be an obvious issue of personal freedom to one person, it may be an obvious community obligation to someone else who regularly interacts with immunocompromised individuals or who has lost a loved one to the virus. It would do us all some good to be a little less sure that our stance is the morally superior one. That said, I invite you to come along with me to wrestle with the issue on one condition: that you momentarily step aside from what you think is obvious.
Principles for thee, but not for me
Coping with a conservative campus
HERE comes the sun
Have you noticed a sense of jitteriness around campus recently? It seems we have reached that time of the semester: when the rest we soaked up over our long break runs out, when the glittery excitement of reuniting with our friends and becoming acquainted with our new classes wears off, and when we start to spend our nights with our heads in our books instead of our pillows. Exams are beginning, and paper deadlines are approaching. I’ve already entered the “I’ll get up early and finish it tomorrow” phase. The honeymoon’s over, and things are getting serious once again.